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EPISODE · Mar 16, 2026 · 34 MIN

LIVE DISCUSSION: Foreknowledge/Impeccability of Christ, Part 5/8

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Send us Fan MailIf you’ve ever heard “God saw you would believe, so He chose you,” this conversation puts that claim under pressure and refuses to let it stay fuzzy. We walk straight into the hardest questions about salvation: Can someone truly lose salvation? If God is omniscient, does He learn anything by “looking down the corridor of time”? And what do we actually mean when we say people have free will?We tease apart a distinction most debates skip: choice is not the same thing as a free will with spiritual ability. Using concrete biblical-style analogies like blindness healed, deafness opened, and bondage broken, we argue that “receiving” salvation is not a human-powered acceptance speech but a work God does in the soul. That takes us into Deuteronomy 30 and the command to “choose life,” where we hold moral responsibility and the universal gospel call together while denying that God’s commands automatically imply equal ability in every hearer.Along the way, we vent a little about why so many churches produce confident opinions without deep discipleship, why theological systems get fragmented, and why “I’m led by the Spirit” can become an excuse to avoid careful study. Our anchor is simple: test every teaching against the attributes of God, especially omniscience and immutability, because any view that makes God wait, learn, or adjust is already in trouble.If this helped you think more clearly about predestination, foreknowledge, free will, Arminianism, and the sovereignty of God, subscribe, share this with a friend who loves theology, and leave a review with the question you’re still wrestling with.Support the showBE PROVOKED AND BE PERSUADED!

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